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OH PRAY MY WINGS ARE GONNA FIT ME WELL.
Edition: Tall galley proof.
New York: Random House, 1975. First edition - Uncommon example of the earliest advance issue for Angelou's fourth book- her second volume of poetry. On the cover are the words "uncorrected first proof." and inside the back cover is the stamped statement Crane Duplicating Services, Barnstable, Massachusetts. 49 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed red wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 84197More details Price: $250.00 -
THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Orchard Books/ Scholastic, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A retelling with a twist of this classic Norwegian folk tale, with wonderful full color illustrations by Jon Klassen. SIGNED on the title page by both Barnett and Klassen. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1338673845.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 86232More details Price: $50.00 -
THE WOMAN IN BLACK (TRENT'S LAST CASE)
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Century Company, 1913. Hardcover first edition - A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. Although the actual publication of this book preceded the Great War and the beginning of the Golden Age of Detective fiction, Haycraft considers this the first detective novel of the modern era ('Murder for Pleasure, p. 113) This was first accepted for publication by Century, but both the US and UK editions (under the better known title "Trent's Last Case") appeared virtually simultaneously in March 1913. Not only was this novel extremely influential, it remains a pleasure to read (or re-read) more than 100 years later. Despite the UK title, this is the first novel to feature Trent. 300 pp.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover (lettering on spine rubbed), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 86391More details Price: $150.00 -
MYSTIC WORDS OF MIGHTY POWER.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: Vita Publishing Co., (1905). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon early work by this American religious and spiritual healer. DeVoe began his ministry after being a participant in the Parliament of Religions at the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893, where he became one of the proponents of the New Thought movement, and, at the turn of the last century, he founded the Elohist Ministry. This work focuses on the fourfold nature of man - physical, mental, spiritual and divine - with sections on The Health Culture, the Mind Culture and the Soul Culture. 213 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover - some wear to ends of spine and corners, a few pages dogeared,
Book ID: 86421More details Price: $75.00 -
JOURNEY.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Condition: Very good in sky blue stapled covers with black lettering.
Book ID: 84045More details Price: $60.00 -
SOUL BROTHA MOTHA'S.
Edition: Chapbook - first printing.
Chicago: DuSable Museum, (1984). First edition - A slim collection of twelve poems. Hummons was the sister of Margaret Taylor Burroughs, Chicago educator, activist, artist and one of the founders of the Du Sable Museum. 20 pp. Uncommon (only one copy located in Worldcat)
Condition: Fine in tan illustrated stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 86423More details Price: $25.00 -
THE SONGS OF OUR YEARS: A Study of Negro Folk Music.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Exposition Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegees alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (small chips to the dj)
Book ID: 86422More details Price: $65.00 -
THE SONGS OF OUR YEARS: A Study of Negro Folk Music.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Exposition Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegee's alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (foxing to endpapers, several chips to the edges and fold of front flap)
Book ID: 87945More details Price: $40.00 -
CORREGIDORA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's powerful first book, the story of a blues singer trying to come to terms with her womanhood, her family's past and the legacy of slavery. James Baldwin called it "the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred and is occurring in the souls of Black men and women ... it dares to confront the absolute terror which lives at the heart of love." Toni Morrison was Jones's editor on these early books. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-394-493230.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket - a former library copy, but the endpapers have been professionally replaced and the only marking is an inconspicuous embossed seal on the title page. Dust jacket is price-clipped, with a very short closed tear to bottom edge of rear cover. Overall an attractive copy of a scarce and important first edition at a reasonable price.
Book ID: 86436More details Price: $950.00 -
THE RED FAIRY BOOK.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1924) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second of the color fairy books compiled by Lang, originally published in 1891, consisting of translations and adaptations from their Norwegian, French, German and Russian originals - some well known like Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel, and others like Princess Mayblossom less so. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren with eight color plates, an illustrated title page, illustrated endpapers and a plate on the cover. An early and uncommon Tenggren illustrated book, and scarce in this condition and in dustjacket. Red tinting to top edge. 285 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in red cloth with plate on front cover, gilt lettering on spine (bookplate) in a near fine dustjacket with a bit of wear to the edges, and the ends of the spine.
Book ID: 86434More details Price: $600.00 -
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a very good dust jacket (some edgewear to the dj, creasing to the flaps)
Book ID: 86178More details Price: $300.00 -
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a very near fine dust jacket (light toning to cream background, original price of 12.95 on dj flap)
Book ID: 89089More details Price: $95.00 -
EBONY DUST.
Edition: First or early printing.
Condition: Very good overall in illustrated, stapled black wrappers (stain inside front cover and affecting the title page and several other pages - thru the table of contents)
Book ID: 86426More details Price: $375.00 -
JUST BETWEEN US BLACKS.
Edition: Tall galley proof.
New York: Random House, (1974.). First edition - Uncommon example of the earliest advance issue for this collection of essays and speeches by this noted journalist on many aspects of surviving as a Black person in the US - includes comments on education, crime, drug addiction, welfare, black pride and more. On the cover are the words "uncorrected first proof" with the issue price and date handwritten. Laid in a mimeographed notice from the publisher. 157 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed red wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 84198More details Price: $125.00 -
NATIVE GUARD: Poems
Edition: First thus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) CD pocket is still unopened.
Book ID: 86389More details Price: $65.00 -
NATIVE GUARD: Poems
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86390More details Price: $175.00 -
REPRODUCTION.
Edition: Uncorrected proof for the first US edition, issued as a trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in printed blue wrapppers.
Book ID: 84207More details Price: $95.00